Weeks after this contretemps involving redwood workers, “three masked men broke into the strike headquarters of the printing trade unions…. Don Steep, the lone occupant at the time was said to have been beaten into a state of unconsciousness and securely tied.” The office was wrecked. After that an oil workers’ strike reached “violent heights.” World War II veterans—an increasingly conservative force—formed the “Yardbird Veterans’ Political Association” and offered to recruit scabs. A GI trucking company was formed to cross picket lines that Teamsters would not violate. In turn, when the CIO Brewers Union went on strike, “truckloads of scabs, herded by Los Angeles police and by the Teamsters, daily rushed the… workers’ picket line.” Teamsters clashed with electrical workers; machinists crossed swords with carpenters; the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen fought the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electrical Railway, and Motor Coach Employees; the welders battled the machinists. The war’s end ushered in a disordered, often violent scene in labor—frequently involving the kind of jurisdictional disputes that had become de rigueur in Hollywood; this pandemonium was not conducive to trade union unity.48